12.16.2008

okay... so i said the other day that i felt relaxed... "it would all get done"... "was not worried"... TODAY... i am feeling a bit of the pinch! a BIG... HARD... pinch! There are only nine days left... but when you have to throw the postal service & shipping in the mix... it's a whole nother KIT & KABOODLE! I am still waiting on shipments to COME IN... with gifts i need to get wrapped & OUT! And to make matters worse... our Christmas cards... were guaranteed to be here by the 12th... today would be the 16th... they are NOT here! The company HAS been wonderful about the whole thing but... ugh... had i known this i would have made it a HAPPY NEW YEAR card too! :)

i am just like you today... trying to balance it all... still being mommy... making patches for NEW JEANS that had holey knees... and facing the fact that the clock is TICKING... like it or not... those hands are MOVING!

Thinking of you ALL today... SERIOUSLY... because when i am standing in line... in a crazy kind of way... it makes me feel good knowing that you are probably doing the exact same thing! :)

Here's to standing in line while WEARING a smile... FEELING the Christmas cheer & SIPPING on a latte!

we've never had to do the knee patch thing...i guess because my kids outgrow their pants in the length so quickly we never get to wear them long enough...annie is a skirt/dress girl so she only owns one pair of jeans that she'll sometimes wear...she'll learn!!!

Panicked... here... I have the children's gifts for school to wrap.... nursing home items to deliver and our picture of the kids has not been taken... each night slips by without the picture I have had planned... (Late is good cause family and friends will still be happy to get the picture in '09) :o) but still feeling holidayish!!!!!! :o) cause it's Christmas!!!happy evening,LuLu

today i began to feel the crunch.i am feeling sick with all there is still to do.all the packages that are not here yet.the christmas cards i haven't even though to touch yet. the baking that is not started.the "piles" that are still there!ugh.so yes....just like you.but you have cuter pants. :)

Today was just crazy. I have been singing the last few weeks for three different clients and have sung a total of about 80 hours in three weeks; thanking God for the work, but just so dang tired, and in between that, put on a benefit concert. Tonight I was completely overwhelmed when I got home. Our weather got bad..we were planning a night of frantic shopping for our family that is from our inner city church and we just quit it all, made a fire, cooked some burgers on the grill in the snow and put on some Chris Botti and called it a night at 4:45. It is 11:00 and I feel rested and relaxed and like I let the "season" in. Thanks to your blog. You inspire. Continue what you do....love what you do.....and let's just promise each other to just enjoy the season....

Oh I so know what you mean!! I still need to stand in all those lines. I really really need the energy to get out there. And I have so much sewing to do! I love those heart patches. I've been looking for a fun way to patch Kurt's youngest girls jeans, she fits 6's perfectly but not ready to move to 7's yet and had a lot of pants a couple of very very cute jeans that are starting to get holes in the knees. Anyways.. post pictures of your other patches, LOL, if you ever fine time!

I'm at a point with my stress that I'm a bout to hyperventilate... I don't even work and I'm running out of time for everything!! I'm not managing my time well... but what's new?!? Girl... when you were here we helped each other!!! I'm lost without you... I mean literally lost and can't get it together, sistah!!